2125957 - SySAM License Error: Failed to obtain licenses due to "Insufficient CPU licenses"

• ASE or other SAP (Sybase) product that are licensed via SYSAM won't start or starts in 'grace' mode
• A message stating there are "Insufficient CPU licenses" is shown
• Below is an example from an ASE error log
  
  Failed to obtain license(s) for ASE_CORE feature from license file(s) or server(s). Insufficient ASE_CORE CPU licenses.
  ASE requires 2 ASE_CORE ("CP") CPU licenses for use on this machine but only 1 could be obtained.
  ...
  
  License for 2 ASE_CORE (2012.0208) will expire Fri 18 Apr 2014 09:23:23 AM EDT.
  Error: 131274, Severity: 17, State: 1
  WARNING: ASE will shutdown on Fri 18 Apr 2014 09:23:23 AM EDT, unless a suitable ASE_CORE license is obtained before that date.
  
  

• This error can occur for ANY SYSAM enabled (e.g SAP IQ, SAP Replication Server...) product. The general format of this error is as follows:
  
  Failed to obtain N license(s) for LicenseName feature from license file(s) or server(s).
  Insufficient CPU licenses
  Sybase_Product _Name requires X CPU licenses for use on this machine but only Y could be obtained -- (where X > Y)

Any SYSAM enabled ex-Sybase software product, including:

• SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE)
• SAP IQ
• SAP Replication Server (SRS)

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